[Ergometry testing in the past and today]

Exercise testing on bicycle-ergometer or treadmill represents a simple and relatively cheap medical procedure. It may be managed in any level of medical evaluation and especially for discovering persons with low or high cardiac risk, beside the asymptomatic or symptomatic status during the testing. The cumulated experience gave the proof than the exercise testing is superior to coronarography and ventriculography. Test protocol and conclusions must be together with the recommendations of the cardiology association and the author gives some of his own remarks and practical recommends. In personal everyday practice someone can find improvements too.